What motivates you to play Doom to this day?

[Hawk of The Crystals]

It's really two reasons for me, one, to see what weird stuff comes out of the community, and two, it reminds me of an era in which fps games weren't what they are now. Although I really like the formula of the classic duology and its commercial wads.

[LadyMistDragon]

The incredibly active and supportive community. Like, I might come back to wads every so often regardless, but witnessing literally almost everything getting released, even some cruddy vanilla map released in UDMF format that takes no advantage of advanced ZDoom features makes it incredibly difficult to find convincing reasons to give it up for an extended period of time again, barring some shit coming up that can't be ignored.

[Vulkar 04]

Me motivo a jugarlo actualmente, ya que siempre descubro algo nuevo por medio de YT o cuando juego casualmente. También, porque me relaja mucho despejar el infierno y las bases infestadas de demonios con mis habilidades que siento que cada vez más progresan!! 

[Sopas]

So i can unload my rage on little fictional monsters

[Widosm]

There's just nothing else like the game and the community out there, so why stop?

[omx32x]

In the past i played a LOT of doom and i have gone trough a bunch of wads on UV

 

These days i dont play as often and when i do is exclusively multplayer

 

What kept me going back isnt the game itself but the community around it

[Dasha W. Frost]

Mods. Lots of mods.

Actually, not quite that. Total conversions!

I know it might be very weird to say but I really love playing Doom TCs, which, one might say, is not actually playing Doom itself... I was wondering about that for quite a long time already, if I really love Doom or just the engine, lol. GZDoom, to be precise, because this is my favourite source port so far.

But I like to appreciate art and design in games first of all, including people's mods and TCs, and all the Doom mods standalone GZDoom games play so very nice and lots of them look stellar, overall it brings a very nice experience to me that I cannot ignore.

[Pechudin]

Mapping really, I don't really play that much.

[Azure_Horror]

For me, Doom is the only game that offers the following:

- gameplay that's inherently fun in most simple of situtaions.

- a potential for endless variety.

- an ability to play in small bursts, like 5 minutes, or less. Saves are great!

- levels that can be completely finished in less than half an hour.

- lots of youtube videos or demos, which provide learning, or just some leisure.

- lots and lots of content created over the years.

 

Modern, 2018-2022 mapsets are just the cherry on top of the cake.

But this chery is worth yet another full cake by itself!